The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-12
COMPETITION.
lis Vampire influence IS Breed
ing q Race Of Impotsnt
Pigmlss.
POISONOUS ADULlBRATIOHs
killing TIE Rase-Hunahs Crowded
4. the Great Cities Like Rats n
Their Burrows.

For the Enquirer.
"But, looking dsep, he saw
The thorns which grew upon this rose ollie I;
How the svsyt peasant sweatsd for his wage,
Toiling for leave 70 live; and how te urysd
The great-eyed oxen through the flaming
hours,
Goading their velvet tanks
till everywhere
Each slew slayer and In turn was slain.
Life living upon death. 80 the fair show
Yelled one vast, savage, grim conspiracy
OF natural murder, nom the worm to man,
Who himself kills his fellow"
LIGHT OF ASIA.
! know a little pond in which
there are quantities of pond-snails,
so many indeed that the water is
blackened with them, and what
little water-weed there was has all
been eaten up, leaving them moth
ing but slime for food. When |
first found this pond, ] could
hardly recognize the species to
which the snails belonged, and no
wonder, for they were less than
half the usual size. dark in color,
and croded; so that ! separated
them from the typical form as a
new variety when writing of them
in a scientific magazine. Here
wascompetition with a vengeance,
and the results of competition.
They struggled together for the
last scrap of vegetation, and prob
ably the httest survived, but under
such hard conditions none we're
fit, and while existing they went
gradually on the downward road
to extinction, each generation
smaller and more miserable than
the last.
One day an old newspaper was
blown into the pond, and there
was joy among the snails. They
set upon it, covered it with their
bodies, tore it to shreds, and de-
voured it, for the little nourish-
ment (you can imagine how little!)
there was in Il.
! know also great town in
which there are millions of human
beings, as it we're great ant-hill,
and what food there is is not eaten
up, but is stored away in granaries
and warehouses. so that they have
nothing left but trash for food.
And they mix good with bad, and
so make all bad, yet label it with
good label, and eat it as cheerfully
as they can, trying to imagine that
it is real. at any rate. Thus. ac-
cording to the report of the local
government board for London
(ISSs-S6) ''in some samples of
coffee no coffee at all was found.
in others the proportion of chick
ory ranged from 90 to 90 per cent.
and over IL per cent of the SAM
Piles of various food-stuffs exam
ined were adulterated.
This is competition, and is the
natural outcome of the struggle
tor existence amongst the store
keepers and merchants. In Ger
man banking, we are told by David
A. Wells. that "the bulk of the
business is gradually shifting from
the small bankers to the great
banking companies-and the small
ones can no longer Itgihate!y prosper.
used to be connected with a
great flour firm which imported
enormous quantities of -four from
America to England; and we'll !
Know that we were gradually kill
ing off the smaller businesses. and
as Tor legitimately prospecting, tle
excessive competition compelled
all hrms. both great and small.
either to cheat or lose part of their
prohts' and you know enough of
the nature Of capitalist to judge
which they did.